Project Support Assistant

Babcock Mission Critical Services España SA.; Plymouth; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading engineering firm in Plymouth is seeking a Project Support Assistant to support the Transformation Function. The role offers hybrid working and involves managing project data, ensuring data integrity, and delivering high-quality reporting. Essential skills include proficiency in MS Excel, Power BI, and strong communication abilities. Join a dynamic team focused on strategic change in naval engineering.

Benefits

Matched contribution pension scheme

Access to Digital GP

Employee share scheme

Holiday trading option

‘Be Kind Day’ for volunteering

Development opportunities

Qualifications

• Proficient in MS Excel, Visio, Project, and Power BI.
• Produces high-quality Management Information tailored to audiences.
• Familiar with project management frameworks and lifecycle phases.

Responsibilities

• Support the development and validation of project data.
• Deliver functional reporting aligned with brand standards.
• Uphold reporting governance and ensure up-to-date sources.

Skills

MS Excel

Visio

Project

Power BI

Written communication

Verbal communication

Job description

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Project Support Assistant

Location:

Devonport, Plymouth, GB, PL1 4SG

Onsite or Hybrid: Hybrid

Job Title: Project Support Assistant

Role Type: Full time / Permanent

Role ID: SF65889

At Babcock we’re working to create a safe and secure world, together, and if you join us, you can play your part as a Project Support Assistant at our Devonport Royal Dockyard site.

The role

As aProject Support Assistant, you’ll have a role that’s out of the ordinary. Join the Transformation Function at HMNB Devonport, where you'll gain broad exposure across submarines, infrastructure, and city-centre operations. This dynamic role offers the opportunity to be deployed across diverse environments, contributing to strategic change and operational improvement at the heart of naval engineering.

Day-to-day, you’ll Support the development and validation of Benefit, Risk, and Learning from Experience (LfE) data across the Portfolio, ensuring data integrity through single version of truth principles, enforcing governance standards, and maintaining up-to-date sources from project stakeholders.

• Delivers timely, high-quality functional reporting aligned with brand standards
• Upholds reporting governance and ensures stakeholder data sources remain current
• Visualises data effectively to communicate compelling, goal-driven insights with high impact
• Supports Project Leads in accurately maintaining RiskHive, Benefit Profiles, and LfE tools
• Verifies programme data integrity, ensuring a clear and auditable trail

This role is full time, 35 hours per week and provides hybrid working arrangements.

Essential experience of the Project Support Assistant

• Proficient in MS Excel, Visio, Project, and Power BI
• Produces high-quality, branded Management Information tailored to diverse audiences
• Familiar with project management frameworks, controls, and lifecycle phases
• Strong written, verbal, and face-to-face communication; Project Controls or IT/data-management experience advantageous
• Experience or understanding of working within a Project Management/Project Controls environment

We value difference and don’t have a fixed idea when it comes to background or education, provided you can show the required level of experience and/or willingness to learn then we would like to hear from you.

Security Clearance

The successful candidate must be a sole UK national who is able to achieve and maintain Naval Nuclear Propulsion Information (NNPPI) security clearance for this role.

Many of the positions within our company are subject to national security clearance and Trade Control restrictions. This means that your eligibility for certain roles may be affected by your place of birth, nationality, current or former citizenship, and any residency you hold or have held. Further details are available at United Kingdom Security Vetting: clearance levels - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)

What we offer

• Matched contribution pension scheme, with life assurance
• Access to a Digital GP, annual health check, and nutritional consultations through Aviva DigiCare+
• Employee share scheme
• Employee shopping savings portal
• Payment of Professional Fees
• Reservists in the armed forces receive 10-days special paid leave
• Holiday Trading is a benefit that allows UK Babcock employees to buy additional leave or to sell up to one working week of annual leave from their annual entitlement. This Window opens February through to March annually.
• ‘Be Kind Day’ enables employees to take one working day's paid leave a year (or equivalent hours) to undertake volunteering work with their chosen organisation or registered charity
• Excellent development opportunities and benefits package including an employee assistance programme supporting physical, mental and financial wellbeing.

Babcock International

For over a century Babcock has helped to defend nations, protect communities and build a better world. To continue, we must adapt, advance and be a sustainable business with a shared goal.

We are a disability confident committed employer. If you have a disability or need any reasonable adjustments during the application and selection stages, please email [e-mail] with the subject header ‘Reasonable adjustments requirement’. We’re committed to building an inclusive culture where everyone’s free to thrive. We are happy to talk about flexible working – please ask about alternative patterns of work at interview.

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